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- adverb In a way that is
sustained , or that continues.
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Examples
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"Play is particularly important during periods that are sustainedly stressful, like now where we don't see an end to this economic downturn," says Brown, founder of the National Institute of Play in Carmel.
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"Play is particularly important during periods that are sustainedly stressful, like now where we don't see an end to this economic downturn," he says.
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Since the lacal government set up in 60 BC, China has governed Xinjiang sustainedly and effectively.
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In accordance with international law and practice, real adscription of territory means a country governs a region sustainedly and effectively.
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Nicole Cooke such flamboyance on her site, but at least she has really achieved success sustainedly.
Sports Personality Of The Year 2006 Betting Odds – Joe Cole 2006
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One caveat: Vrinte specifically excludes Wilber's Grace and Grit from his consideration, although this book, published following the death of his wife from cancer, includes some of his most sustainedly humane yet rigorously experiential writing, incompatible with any attempt to dismiss his work as a mere intellectual construction leavened by flashes of mystical insight -- a position Vrinte seems at times to be edging towards.
An integral yogi who philosophises Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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I screamed. i couldn't contain my weeping or the impulse to repeat the phrase. the air to speak it came from my stomach because i was speaking so sustainedly that i was out of air. it was definitely a charged dream.
- dudemanflab 2005
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Wrote the funniest book perhaps, the most sustainedly witty book in the English language, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy 1992
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No composer, it is said, has ever existed at once so prolific and so sustainedly powerful.
Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands
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Now this is all pleasant exceedingly, but to enjoy this sort of thing sustainedly one should not have an English constitution.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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